A TORY Rugby councillor who reported a rival party to an in-house watchdog says she has no regrets about the action she took....

A TORY Rugby councillor who reported a rival party to an in-house watchdog says she has no regrets about the action she took.

Cllr Hazel Bell (St Mary's) believes she was right to lodge a complaint with the council's standards and ethics committee over the behaviour of some Liberal Democrat members during a meeting in November.

The committee later ruled that no action be taken against the Lib Dems for walking out of a meeting to discuss hospitals boss David Loughton's 50-page draft rescue plan for Coventry and Rugby's hospitals.

They felt it should not have been presented behind closed doors.

In yesterday's Evening Telegraph, Lib Dem group leader Cllr Jerry Roodhouse (Eastlands) called for Cllr Bell to reconsider her position over the allegations and admit she was wrong to bring them.

But Cllr Bell said she felt the Liberal Democrats' actions were rude and discourteous.

She added: "It was just all so unnecessary because they knew full well that Mr Loughton would have left if the press and public had stayed.

"And they knew full well that it was always the intention of fixing up a public meeting with him at a later date."

The public meeting with Mr Loughton is to take place at Rugby town hall on January 16 at 5.30pm.